George Savile Halifax

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.