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

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

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.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.