Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.—Job 14:1.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.—Carlyle.
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.—Emerson.
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.