Deference And Intimacy Live Far Apart.

What! Would You Make No Distinction Between Hypocrisy And Devotion? Would You Give Them The Same Names, And Respect The Mask As You Do The Face? Would You Equate Artifice And Sincerity? Confound Appearance With Truth? Regard The Phantom As The Very Person? Value Counterfeit As Cash?

Ah, There Are No Children Nowadays.

In Clothes As Well As Speech, The Man Of Sense Will Shun All These Extremes That Give Offense, Dress Unaffectedly, And, Without Haste, Follow The Changes In The Current Taste.

The Envious Will Die, But Envy Never.

Ah! How Annoying That The Law Doesn't Allow A Woman To Change Husbands Just As One Does Shirts.