Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.~ Lord Chesterfield
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.~ Lord Chesterfield
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.~ Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.~ Lord Chesterfield
One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one’s learning.~ Lord Chesterfield
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.~ Lord Chesterfield
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.~ Lord Chesterfield
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.~ Lord Chesterfield