The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. – Lord Chesterfield
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – 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