Philip Dormer Stanhope

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with
silly things; for true wit or read more

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with
silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh
since the creation of the world.

If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you
think is wholesome, you may say read more

If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you
think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so
little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad
company by doing so."

The dews of the evening most carefully shun;
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun;
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Despatch is the soul of business.

Despatch is the soul of business.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.