Legacy
Chesterfield County, Virginia and Chesterfield County, South Carolina in the United States were named in his honour. Chesterfield appears in the 1757-1758 novel The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Among the quotations attributed to him are:
- "The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."
- "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions."
- "I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
- "Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."
- "The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable."
Philip Stanhope is also widely credited as the commissioner of the first Chesterfield sofa or couch, a lasting legacy which still holds today.
Read more about this topic: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Famous quotes containing the word legacy:
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)