hearing of themselves and their children.

If you go to a house where there are children you should take
especial care to conciliate their good will by a little manly
_tete-a-tete,_ otherwise you may get a ball against your
skins, or be tumbled from a three-legged chair.

To be able to converse with women you must study their
vocabulary. You would make a great mistake in interpreting
_never, forever,_ as they are explained in Johnson.

Do not be for ever telling a woman that she is handsome,
witty, etc. She knows that a vast deal better than you do.

Do not allow your love for one woman to prevent your paying
attention to others. The object of your love is the only one
who ought to perceive it.

A little pride, which reminds you what is due to yourself,
and a little good nature, which suggests what is due to
others, are the pre-requisites for the moral constitution of
a gentleman.

Too much vivacity and too much inertness are both fatal to
politeness. By the former we are hurried too far, by the
latter we are kept too much back.

_Nil admirari,_ the precept of stoicism, is the precept for
conduct among gentlemen. All excitement must be studiously
avoided. When you are with ladies the case is different.