Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.
Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.