Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.


Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (ed. 1827)


So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.