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

If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

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

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.