Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
Good manners are a part of good morals.
Better too much form than too little.
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.