Lord Chesterfield

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a read more

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.