Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. – Lord Chesterfield

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. – Lord Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – 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
Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry