Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.