Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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