Philip Dormer Stanhope

“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it except in themselves.”

“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.”

“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”

“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.”

“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”

“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”

“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”

“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.”

“Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success.”

“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”

“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”

“Style is the dress of thoughts.”

“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.”

“Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.”

“The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.”

“Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.”