Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
Lord ChesterfieldWords are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
Lord ChesterfieldMen have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
Lord Chesterfield