Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Lord ChesterfieldLetters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.
Lord ChesterfieldThe talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
Lord ChesterfieldNo man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
Lord ChesterfieldDancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.
Lord Chesterfield