The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

A strong mind sees things in their true proportions; a weak one views them through a magnifying medium, which, like the microscope, makes an elephant of a flea: magnifies all little objects, but cannot receive great ones.

The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.