Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.