Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself

All men wish to have truth on their side but few to be on the side of truth

Happiness is no laughing matter

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument