Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chรจre, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.
Lord ChesterfieldSecond-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.
Lord ChesterfieldNo man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
Lord Chesterfield