Any persons whom it could please could have no better notion of what the words referred to signify than of the meaning of apsides and asymptotes.
MAN! Sir! WOMAN! Sir! Gentility is a fine thing, not to be undervalued, as I have been trying to explain; but humanity comes before that.
"When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman ?" The beauty of that plainness of speech and manners which comes from the finest training is not to be understood by those whose habitat is below a certain level.

Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale.

Fortunately, the virtues are more tenacious of life, and last pretty well until we get down to the mud of absolute pauperism, where they do not flourish greatly.
-- I had almost forgotten about our boarders.

As the Model of all the Virtues is about to leave us, I find myself wondering what is the reason we are not all very sorry.

Surely we all like good persons.