James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Lord Greville
Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox—because they meet with no one to give it to them.
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.
The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.
We are often governed by people not only weaker than ourselves, but even by those whom we think so.