Splendid furniture also would be considered as pernicious as splendid clothes.

It would be classed with external ornaments, and would be reckoned equally productive of pride, with these.

The custom therefore of plainness in the articles of domestic use is pressed upon all Quakers: and that the subject may not be forgotten, it is incorporated in their religious discipline; in consequence of which, it is held forth to their notice, in a public manner, in all the monthly and quarterly meetings of the kingdom, and in all the preparative meetings, at least once in the year.
It may be admitted as a truth, that the society practice, with few exceptions, what is considered to be the proper usage on such occasions.
The poor, we know, cannot use any but homely-furniture.

The middle clashes are universally in such habits.

As to the rich, there is a difference in the practice of these.