C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Baseness
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
Shakespeare.
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.
Lowell.