Politeness

“Take care never to speak what you have not weighed and pondered beforehand; nor interject your own words on the spur of the moment and in the midst of another’s; for you must listen and converse in turn, with set times for speech and for silence.”

“Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

“Politeness, however, acts the lady's-maid to our thoughts ; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public”

“Christian piety annihilates the egotism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.”

“Politeness is a tacit agreement that people’s miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made a subject of reproach.”