“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”

“A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.”

“Death is a shadow that always follows the body”

“The absent are always wrong.”

“Everyone must row with the oars he has.”

“The shortest answer is doing.”

“Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.”

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

“Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and imp...”

“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.”