Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

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• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury i

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, ab

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the w

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimate