Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away the heart of stone, and to give us hearts of flesh; to polish off the rudeness and arrogances of our manners and tempers; and to make us blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke.—Jay.
Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.—Joubert.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.—Alphonse Karr.
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the want of it.—Lytton.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable.—H.W. Shaw.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,—a letter of credit everywhere.—Bartol.
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.—Beecher.
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.—Julia Ward Howe.
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.—Monro.
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?—Chatham.