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Abel Stevens
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
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Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Baltasar Graci?n
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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Erastus Wiman
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
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Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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Henry Clay
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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Michel De Montaigne
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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Proverb
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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