But if, on the contrary, we have been in their homes, and have seen them in their surroundings and habits and the circumstances which are necessary and inevitable for them; if we have seen the kind of influence they exert on those around them, or how they behave, it is only ignorance and ill-will that can find food for ridicule in what must appear to us in more than one sense worthy of respect.
What we call conduct and good manners obtains for us that which otherwise is to be obtained only by force, or not even by force.
Women's society is the element of good manners.
How can the character, the peculiar nature of a man, be compatible with good manners?
It is through his good manners that a man's peculiar nature should be made all the more conspicuous. Every one likes distinction, but it should not be disagreeable.