Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop
Not to outsport discretion.
—Shakespeare.
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the duties of life.—Addison.
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.—Gambetta.
Dissimulation.—Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not, artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.—La Bruyère.
Dress.—In the matter of dress people should always keep below their ability.—Montesquieu.
Those who are incapable of shining but by dress would do well to consider, that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.—Shenstone.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin.—Matthew 6:28.
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods; and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.—Abba Goold Woolson.
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.—Sir Walter Raleigh.
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.—George D. Prentice.