Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. - Lord Chesterfield. View more images...