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• A man's good breeding is the best security against another's bad manners. -- Chesterfield
• Compliments of congratulations are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink, and paper.
  I consider them as droughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer....
• Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had.
  Satan! Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep....
• And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lip
  o have questioned her, that she might have opened them...
• As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal.
  -- Steele...
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....
• DEAR MISS MANNERS -- When someone brings sweet rolls to work for a treat, is it proper for people to cut them up and leave halves, quarters or eighths on the plate?
  GENTLE READER -- Those who bring sweet rolls to work should not be quartered, much less eighthed....