A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. Lord Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.Lord Chesterfield
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.Lord Chesterfield
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Lord Chesterfield
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.Lord Chesterfield
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weighLord Chesterfield
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.Lord Chesterfield