The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.