Rodger

“Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind. To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
-Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, II”
― Denise Gigante, The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology from Addison to De Quincey

“Believe me, sir,” he writes in the Reflections, “those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions of citizens, some description must be uppermost.”
― Yuval Levin, The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

“-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”
― P. G. Wodehouse