“ If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself. ”
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
