The old Lord Cromarty often mentioned this anecdote to his friends.[1]
"It is better to be envied than pitied," was his observation to Lord Chancellor Clarendon.[2]
"He that takes one stone from the Church, takes two from the Crown," was another of his sayings preserved by Pepys.[3]
He said to Lauderdale, "To let Presbytery go, for it was not a religion for gentlemen."[4]
That "God would not damn a man for a little irregular pleasure," he observed in one of his free discourses with Burnet on points of religion.[5]
If his short characters of men were in common at all like the one that has been preserved to us of Godolphin, we have lost a good deal by the lack of reporters. Of Godolphin, when only a page at court, he said, "that he was never in the way, and never out of the way;"[6] and this was a character, says Lord Dartmouth, which Godolphin maintained to his life's end.
When told by Will. Legge, that the pardoning of Lord Russell would, among other things, lay an eternal obligation upon a very great and numerous
