Lord of
Lord of
jewels world way
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
positive time procrastination
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
being-strong athlete exercise
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
common-sense common knows
Common sense is the best sense I know of.
positive time care
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
funny brother sibling
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
health pay being-sick
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
turns justify maxims
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
inferiority your-best-friend enjoy
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
deception capitalism
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
life-lesson lessons reticence
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.
vegetables dinner culinary
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
taste pleasure enjoy
Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
good-man return manners
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.