30 Quotes by E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.