Top 77 Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

You must look into people as well as at them.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

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

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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