The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Lord Chesterfield

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Lord Chesterfield

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Lord Chesterfield

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

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Lord Chesterfield

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Lord Chesterfield

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Lord Chesterfield

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

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Lord Chesterfield

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Lord Chesterfield

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield

You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield