You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

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.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

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.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the read more

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no read more

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.