Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a >>

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; an >>

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

Quotations about Mind

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at pe >>

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to >>

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around >>

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Chesterfield, Lord