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

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), 10 March 1746

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.”

“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”