Page 84, note 1. There is an interesting quotation to this purpose from Balzac's Théorie de la démarche, in "Behavior," Conduct of Life.
Page 84, note 2. There is in the essay "The Conservative," in Nature, Addresses and Lectures, a statement, from the conservative's point of view of the beneficence of "this institution of credit, which is as universal as honesty and promise in the human countenance".
Page 85, note 1. "We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."—"Behavior," Conduct of Life.
Page 88, note 1.
"In clothes, cheap handsomenesse doth bear the bell.Wisdome's a trimmer thing than shop e'er gave.Say not then, This with that lace will do well;But, This with my discretion will be brave.Much curiousnesse is a perpetual wooing,Nothing with labour, folly long a-doing."George Herbert, "The Church Porch."
Page 90, note 1. See in Essays, First Series, the chapter on Friendship and its motto, whence come these lines:—
All things through thee take nobler formAnd look beyond the earth,The mill-round of our fate appearsA sun-path in thy worth.
Page 90, note 2. In one of the sheets remaining from the old lecture is this passage: "Conversation too has its ethics of prudence and morals. It requires a quiet but firm self-control. You shall not be leaky. There are people to whom nothing can be confided, because their vanity to tell what they know has all the effect of treachery. You shall not be leaky nor ridden, and you shall not be opinionative."
