Philip Stanhope Quotes on Behavior
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
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Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
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An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.