#mo

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#health #humor #poison #sadness #soul

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

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affair #less #love #love affair #more

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#badly #democracy #educated #government #means

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#contradiction #courage #desire #die #form

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #distant #ego #may #more

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appreciating #appreciation #having #less #life