1st Earl Russell

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or russell:

    “Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can; but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “They talk about their Pilgrim blood,
    Their birthright high and holy!
    A mountain-stream that ends in mud
    Methinks is melancholy.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)