“Style is the dress of thoughts.”

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), 24 November 1749

About Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

1694 – 1773

English statesman and man of letters, author of "Letters to His Son".

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

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

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”

“Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”