Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

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.

The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.