The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.

I foresee, that before the end of this century, the trade of both King and Priest will not be half so good a one as it has been.