The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Lord ChesterfieldMan is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
Lord ChesterfieldA learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.
Lord Chesterfield