Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. J. Dodsley, 1774.
This statement was true in 1938 and was still true in 2012 when this quotation was entered in the collection.
Holland had a much more individualistic culture than did France; this was one of the reasons that Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte was frustrated with Holland as the people were not as susceptible to his heroic, glorious image and his demagoguery as were the French.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe.