Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take c >>

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. >>

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without ido >>

Quotations about Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. >>

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? >>

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by associ >>

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord