Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.