Philip StanhopeThinkers

Business is an activity whose soul is dispatch.

Dispatch is the soul of business; and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method. Lay down a method for everything, and stick to it inviolably, as far as unexpected incidents may allow.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Journalism is now conducted like any other business-as sensibly as the office of any moderately fraudulent financier.

Opera is a magic scene contrived to please the eyes and the ears at the expense of the understanding.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Style is the dress of thoughts.

Wit is that within which a wise man will live as much as within his income.