Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.
Lord ChesterfieldA gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
Lord ChesterfieldTo take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
Lord Chesterfield