May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!
Lord ChesterfieldThe greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.
Lord ChesterfieldIt seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
Lord ChesterfieldIn nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.
Lord Chesterfield