I felt before I thought
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.