"The best mirror is an old friend."
"In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie."
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Source: George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.9
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