Alfred Ayres 
The Mentor [EPUB ebook] 

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.—TRUBLET.
To be welcome in the society of persons of the better sort, who are always persons of culture and refinement, we must ourselves be persons of culture and refinement, i.e., we must know and practise the usages that obtain in refined society, and have some acquaintance with letters and art.