"The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge."
- Lord Chesterfield
"Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes."
"When a man is once in fashion all he does is right."
"Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason."
"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."
"Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them gi..."
"Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please."
"Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights."
"Idleness is the holiday of fools."