Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
A word to the wise is sufficient
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.