E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Men Quotations

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

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.

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.

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.