In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.
Lord ChesterfieldI have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.
Lord ChesterfieldSix, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.
Lord ChesterfieldLittle minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.
Lord Chesterfield