Philip Stanhope , British statesman

said about Power, Interest, Ivy, Man, Merit, Oak, Will...

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"A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest."
- Philip Stanhope

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