Tag: Chesterfield

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.