The world is full of poetry.  The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.—­Percival.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.—­Joubert.

Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin.—­Beecher.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.—­Cervantes.

Politeness.—­True politeness is perfect ease and freedom.  It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.  —­Chesterfield.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.—­Stanislaus.

Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away the heart of stone, and to give us hearts of flesh; to polish off the rudeness and arrogances of our manners and tempers; and to make us blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke.—­Jay.

Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.—­Joubert.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.  —­Alphonse Karr.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the want of it.—­Lytton.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable.—­H.W.  Shaw.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,—­a letter of credit everywhere.  —­Bartol.

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way.  It is the expression of good-will and kindness.  It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him.  It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.—­Beecher.

Politeness induces morality.  Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.—­Julia Ward Howe.

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.—­Monro.

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?—­Chatham.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.—­GREVILLE.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character.  A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country.  It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.—­Goldsmith.