C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Saville
A dull man is so near a dead man that he is hardly to be ranked in the list of the living; and as he is not to be buried whilst he is half alive, so he is as little to be employed whilst he is half dead.
A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king’s.
Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet.
Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it; though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men.
He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place.
Malice may empty her quiver, but cannot wound; the dirt will not stick, the jests will not take. Without the consent of the world, a scandal doth not go deep; it is only a slight stroke upon the injured party, and returneth with the greater force upon those that gave it.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject.
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom; and it may be said that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom, so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man’s life is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain.
Vanity is never at its full growth till it spreadeth into affectation, and then it is complete.
Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears, than we have by our arguments.