Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.


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


Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their...

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their...

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their...

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their...