--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.
As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness
before men.--GREVILLE.
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A
gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of
any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those
distinctions which characterize a people.
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