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

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.