An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
Lord ChesterfieldGood breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.
Lord ChesterfieldDeserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.
Lord Chesterfield