It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeEvery character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeWe are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeOne great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookePleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke