"Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of all impediments. They aid our dealings and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all the obstructions on the road."
Emerson.
"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions."
Emerson.
"He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself."
Emerson.
"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
JULY 27
"Manners impress as they indicate real power. A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression, which everybody reads. And you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression. Nature forever puts a premium on reality."