Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or russell:
“Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)