No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior. "
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. ". . . Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her. " "Who was it?" "His own wife. " "Oh, dear.
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.