Most maxim-mongers have preferred the pr…

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The heart never grows better by age I fe…

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield