"The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent."

"The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves."

"People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding."

"Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy."

"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."