In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.
Joseph AddisonNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph AddisonOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
Joseph Addison