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

What once were vices are manners now.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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

Civility costs nothing.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.