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

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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.