Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.