#i

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#art #attained #fool #hast #imagining

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#health #humor #poison #sadness #soul

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

#feel #gentleness #manner #resentment #same

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#beautiful #consists #every #frame #limitation

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

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#all things #great things #only #peak #sees

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #lost #may #realize #to love

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#look #parade #rain #rainbow #rains

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#man #tolerance #virtue #without