Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.