Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – 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
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. – Lord Chesterfield