Compliments of congratulations are always kindly taken, and cost nothing
but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as droughts upon good breeding,
where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.
-- Chesterfield
Related:
All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly thing but yet a man
of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and
decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not
for that defense, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance....
