Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.