"Manners are very communicable: men catch them..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.”

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”

“Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.”

“If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.”

“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”

“There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.”

“Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.”

“Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.”

“Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.”