There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

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.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

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.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with read more

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.