Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. – Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield
I wish I had coined the phrase tyranny of choice, but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. – Susan Orlean
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990