Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.

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.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.