You observe, that when the parts are drawn the right way, and together, the more you pull the faster they hold, and the more impossible to untie them; but see, by hauling them apart, how a little difference, a pull the other way, immediately disunites them, and then how easy they cast off in a moment.

That points out the necessity of pulling together in this world, Mr Simple, when we wish to hold on, and that's a piece of philosophy worth all the twenty-six thousand and odd years of my friend the carpenter, which leads to nothing but a brown study, when he ought to be attending to his duty." "Very true, Mr Chucks, you are the better philosopher of the two." "I am the better educated, Mr Simple, and I trust, more of a gentleman.
I consider a gentleman to be, to a certain degree, a philosopher, for very often he is obliged, to support his character as such, to put up with what another person may very properly fly in a passion about.

I think coolness is the great character-stick of a gentleman.

In the service, Mr Simple, one is obliged to appear angry without indulging the sentiment.

I can assure you, that I never lose my temper, even when I use my rattan." "Why, then, Mr Chucks, do you swear so much at the men?
Surely that is not gentlemanly ?" "Most certainly not, sir.