Niggards are oftentimes neat.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
. . . there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.
I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc. , in dusty and "most admired confusion. " Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat. , Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli. ]
The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.
