The Joy Of Life Is

Politeness Is Fictitious Benevolence. Depend Upon It, The Want Of It Never Fails To Produce Something Disagreeable To One Or Other.

A Man Is Not Obliged Honestly To Answer A Question Which Should Not Properly Be Put.

This Man [chesterfield], I Thought, Had Been A Lord Among Wits; But I Find He Is Only A Wit Among Lords.

It Is Not Easy To Surround Life With Any Circumstances In Which Youth Will Not Be Delightful.

Life Affords No Higher Pleasure Than That Of Surmounting Difficulties, Passing From One Step Of Success To Another, Forming New Wishes And Seeing Them Gratified.