Lord Chesterfield ( 10 of 44 )
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, read more
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more
Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
