"Advice is seldon welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)

"Men are much more unwillinging to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes."
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 - 1773)