“There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.”

“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”

“A mans mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".”

“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.”

“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.”

“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.”

“He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.”

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

“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.”