Ceremony is all backbone.
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.