To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Richard WhatelySome persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.
Richard Whately