Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield quotes

" The more one works, the more willing one is to work. " # Will and Will Power

" The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable. " # Lies and Lying

" Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. " # Learning # Death and Dying # Love

" Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so. " # Wisdom

" Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. " # Grief

" That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody. " # Responsibility # Friends and Friendship # Love

" Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. " # Quotations # Advice # Death and Dying

" There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. " # Quotations # Secrets # Friends and Friendship

" The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely. " # Quotations # Wisdom # Weakness