Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct—never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide thro' the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun — Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

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