An Able Man Shows His

Take The Tone Of The Company You Are In...

Advice Is Seldom Welcome, And Those Who Need It The Most, Like It The Least.

Elegance Of Manner Is The Outgrowth Of Refined And Exalted Sense.

Men Are Apt To Mistake, Or At Least To Seem To Mistake, Their Own Talents, In Hopes, Perhaps, Of Misleading Others To Allow Them That Which They Are Conscious They Do Not Possess. Thus Lord Hardwicke Valued Himself More Upon Being A Great Minister Of State, Which He Certainly Was Not, Than Upon Being A Great Magistrate, Which He Certainly Was.

Good Manners Are The Settled Medium Of Social, As Specie Is Of Commercial, Life; Returns Are Equally Expected For Both.