COURTESY
"How do you like your new music-master?"
"He is a very nice, polite young man. When I made a mistake yesterday he said: 'Pray, mademoiselle, why do you take so much pains to improve upon Beethoven?'"
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.—Emerson.
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech,
Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy!
Wholesome as air and genial as the light,
Welcome in every clime as breaths of flowers—
It transmutes aliens into trusting friends,
And gives its owner passport round the globe.
—J.T. Fields.