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.

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

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.