If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.
Lord ChesterfieldTalk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Lord ChesterfieldI have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.
Lord Chesterfield