The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm,
imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits, from
the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in
quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money in quiet; while others
cannot take up either a spoon, or an affront, without making such an
amazing noise about it.
--_Bulwer-Lytton._
1278
Manners are the shadows of virtue.
--_Sydney Smith._
1279
Vulgar people can't be still.
--_O. W. Holmes._
1280
In society want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
--_Lavater._
1281
The wealthy and the noble when they expend large sums in decorating
their houses with the rare and costly efforts of genius, with busts, and
with cartoons from the pencil of a Raphael, are to be commended, if they
do not stand still _here_, but go on to bestow some pains and cost, that
the master himself be not inferior to the mansion, and that the owner be
not the only thing that is _little_, amidst everything else that is
_great_. The house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that
can detain them.
1282
Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.
--_Byron._
1283