`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebr

George Lorimer's 'Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son' is a timeless collection of Gilded Age aphorisms from a rich man - a prosperous pork-packer in C

This book contains a series of letters written by Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield, to his son. The letters, written over a period of 30 years,