Excerpt from Letters, Sentences and Maxims

"Take out the immorality, and it should be put into the hands of every young gentleman." - Dr. Johnson, May 1776.

"Viewed as compositions, they appear almost unrivalled for a serious epistolary style; clear, elegant, and terse, never straining at effect, and yet never hurried into carelessness." - Lord Mahon, 1845.

"In point of style, a finished classical work; they contain instructions for the conduct of life that will never be obsolete. Instinct with the most consummate good-sense and knowledge of life and business, and certainly nothing can be more attractive than the style in which they are set before their readers." - Quarterly Review, vol. 1xxvi., 1845.

"Lord Chesterfield's letters are, I will venture to say, masterpieces of good taste, good writing, and good-sense." - John Wilson Croker, 1846.

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