Lord Chesterfield

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#experience #find #i #intimately #married

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#minds #only #refuge #weak #weak minds

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#nobody #you

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#convince #open #others #seem #would

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #anybody #because #charge #give

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#laughter #mind #nothing

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#days #frequently #now #take #than

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#closet #knowledge #only #world