Suspect all extraordinary and groundless civilities.

More from Introductio ad prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life

• Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
• Enquire not what boils in another's Pot.
• Good clothes open all doors.
• He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.