I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
Lord ChesterfieldIt is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.
Lord ChesterfieldA gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
Lord Chesterfield