Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. – Lord Chesterfield

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. – Lord Chesterfield
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. – Lord Chesterfield
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield