|C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.|
| Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.|
| Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.|
Sir P. Sidney.
| There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.|