There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit read more

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is read more

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.