Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are >>

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than marrie >>

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the >>

Quotations about Firmness

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. >>

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those wh >>

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humilit >>

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Chesterfield, Lord