Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord ChesterfieldI heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.
Lord ChesterfieldArtichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
Lord ChesterfieldAt any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.
Lord Chesterfield