57. To imitate the manners, voice, attitude, or gestures of great
men were a folly almost too absurd to mention if it were not so
common. Many persons, from a real or fancied personal resemblance
to some celebrity, will ape their manners also, as if mere
appearance would make them equally distinguished.
58. It is wiser, if you have met with reverses, to withdraw
yourself from society than to have society withdraw from you.
59. It is a breach of etiquette to assume pedantic airs; to talk
of the Latin and Greek authors, and quote in those languages.
60. It is a breach of etiquette to make a quotation in a foreign
language and then translate it, thereby giving your listeners to
understand that you do not consider them as well informed as
yourself.
61. Shakespeare says:
"To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."