In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
Lord ChesterfieldNothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.
Lord ChesterfieldMen are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.
Lord Chesterfield