The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield
Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. – William Least Heat-Moon