There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

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.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.