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

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

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.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

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.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.