Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752 Quotes

“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
― Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752

“Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield