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 of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.