"Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you."

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one."

"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."

"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."

"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."

"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."

"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."

"Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults."

"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."

"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."

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

"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."

"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."

"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."

"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."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."

"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."

"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody."

"The more one works, the more willing one is to work."

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

"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."

"I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet."

"Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason."

"Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."

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

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."

"You must look into people as well as at them."

"Take the tone of the company you are in."

"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."

"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."

"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in."

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

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

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."

"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."

"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income."

"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."