Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#draws #faults #our #own #self-love

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feels #general #give #must #necessary

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#conscience #either #honor #live #long

Take the tone of the company you are in. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#take #tone #you

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#difference #dress #himself #his #knows

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#less #time

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

#acquainted #country #description #ever #knew

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#commonly #considering #fatherless #fathers #general

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#character #clean #kept #must #well

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#honest #pitied #ridiculed