Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.