Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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.

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.