4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Manners

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on manners

211. 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, - now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.

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

261. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

305. Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.