C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Savage
The most savage people are also the ugliest.
Mary Somerville.
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
Shakespeare.
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
Brisbane.
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
Plato.
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
Plutarch.