Manners: 'Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.'

Emotions: 'Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will revea…

Death: 'Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.'

Life: 'Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.'

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are pre…

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those that are not entirely beautiful; Yet many, that have play…

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.