When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.
Lord ChesterfieldIn seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord ChesterfieldWhatever 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 Chesterfield