Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

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

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

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and read more

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.