Lord Chesterfield

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

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

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

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.