Enough's a surfeit to the soul. - Coventry Patmore

The difference between a commonly well-behaved woman and a high-bred lady consists in very small things—but what a difference it is!

If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity in them, for there is no truth; truth and simplicity being, as Aquinas says, the same thing.

Pride does much and ill, Love does little and well.