Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
Lord ChesterfieldA rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.
Lord ChesterfieldThe power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
Lord ChesterfieldThe heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.
Lord Chesterfield