Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
Roger L'EstrangeResolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
Roger L'EstrangeThe blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.
Roger L'EstrangeThe common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Roger L'Estrange