There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at least a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.
For thus the wood-gods murmured in my ear,
Dost love our manners?
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.
For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible
Nature never wears a mean appearance. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense of mind.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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