Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
Roger L'EstrangeA plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
Roger L'EstrangeHumor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.
Roger L'EstrangeSo long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
Roger L'EstrangeAll duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
Roger L'EstrangeSome people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.
Roger L'Estrange