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• Reason is the test of ridicule- not ridicule the test of truth. -- Warburto
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...
• We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Voltaire, Foreign Review, 1829...
• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
• You must look into people, as well as at them. -- Lord Chesterfield
• How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
  -- A. Coope...
• A man's good breeding is the best security against another's bad manners. -- Chesterfield
• Advise is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. -- Lord Chesterfield
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield (to his son)