What a piece of work is a man!  How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!—­Shakespeare.

There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.—­Lavater.

Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.—­Lowell.

Manners.—­Evil communications corrupt good manners.—­1 COR. 15:33.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.  If you wish to be loved, love measure.—­Emerson.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.—­Swift.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.—­Chesterfield.

A man’s worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.  —­La Bruyere.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,—­fine breeding.—­Lytton.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.—­Lavater.

Good manners are a part of good morals.—­Whatley.

One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men:  our superiors, our equals, and those below us.—­Swift.

As a man’s salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.—­Lavater.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.—­La ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one 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.  If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.—­Emerson.

Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.  They give their whole form and colors to our lives.  According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.—­Burke.

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.—­Chesterfield.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.—­Hannah more.

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