Date: 1774
"In this journey, the understanding is the 'voiture' that must carry you through; and in proportion as that is stronger or weaker, more or less in repair, your journey will be better or worse; though at best you will now and then find some bad roads, and some bad inns."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)