“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
29 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
1 July 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
Generally attributed to Lord Chesterfield, the first publication of this yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851), with the first attribution to Chesterfield as yet located in: Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate
Disputed
22 February 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)