Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or russell:
“It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)