Ceremony is all backbone.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.