A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. – Lord Chesterfield
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death