Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield More Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield More Quotes From Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield hours flying time beauty Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield best you friends enjoy There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield forgive nothing insult people Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield good man fear love