He had a certain amount of sense; but he would have had a vast deal more if he had not given so much of his mind to the decoration of his person.

And with it all he never succeeded, at school at any rate, in passing himself off for any one more important than he was.

It is as much a sign of being no gentleman to over-dress as to dress like a sloven, but, as in every other case, the secret is to find the golden mean.

I have often seen working-men dressed in a more gentlemanly way than certain gorgeous snobs of my acquaintance; not that their clothes were grander or cost more, but because they were _neat_.

That really is the secret.