There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.