One 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 BrookeIt would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeLove will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke