mix'd in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
--SHAKESPEARE.

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
--JOB 14:1.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is
one rascal less in the world.--CARLYLE.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to
form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms,
but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.--EMERSON.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in
faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action,
how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!--SHAKESPEARE.

There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary,
and the progressive.--LAVATER.

Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL.

MANNERS.--Evil communications corrupt good manners.--1 COR. 15:33.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses
with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved,
love measure.--EMERSON.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we
converse.--SWIFT.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that
of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I
should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of
well-bred.--CHESTERFIELD.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
--LA BRUYERE.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful
benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.--LYTTON.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as
want of manners.--LAVATER.

Good manners are a part of good morals.--WHATLEY.

One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the
three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those
below us.--SWIFT.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing
do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and
salutation.--LAVATER.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

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
last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its
details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops whic