Sacrifice to the Graces. - 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.

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.