Philip Stanhope

“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.”

“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”

“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.”

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

“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.”

“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.”

“If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.”

“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.”

“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”

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

“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.”

“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.”

“Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.”

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.”

“Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.”

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”

“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”

“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.”

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

“To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.”