Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.