Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.