Earl of ChesterfieldThinkers

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Fear invites danger.

Financial success is improved by having a hobby — Few people do business well who do nothing else.

A Gentleman is one who has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness, genteel without affection, insinuating without seeming art.

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good-nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.

Human nature is the same all over the world.

Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds ; little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the exact pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Indolence is a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business as many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his re-quest.