Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

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• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to th

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness,

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

  The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.