The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. – Lord Chesterfield
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. – Lord Chesterfield
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau