Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, -…

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the…

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Manners: 'Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.'

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.