There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

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.

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.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

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

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

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.

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

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.