If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.
Lord ChesterfieldHe adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Lord ChesterfieldStyle is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
Lord ChesterfieldSex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield