Of simple tastes and mind content!

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

HOW TO MAKE A MAN OF CONSEQUENCE

A BROW austere, a circumspective eye.

A frequent shrug of the os humeri;

A nod significant, a stately gait,

A blustering manner, and a tone of weight,

A smile sarcastic, an expressive stare:

Adopt all these, as time and place will bear;

Then rest assur’d that those of little sense