99 Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

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

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

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.