Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

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

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

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

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.