Part 15

GOETHE.

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

GEORGE ELIOT.

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"Power hath not one-half the might of gentleness."

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Manner is of importance. A kind no is often more agreeable than a rough yes.

BENGEL.

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We are always clever with those who imagine we think as they do. To be shallow you must differ from people; to be profound you must agree with them.

BULWER.

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If you want to spoil all that God gives you; if you want to be miserable yourself and a maker of misery to others, the way is easy enough. Only be selfish, and it is done at once.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

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Language was given us that we might say pleasant things.

BOVEE.

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"The specially social qualities are good nature, amiability, the desire to please, and the kindness of heart that avoids giving offence. A good natured person may frankly disagree with you, but he never offends."

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

EMERSON.

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Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle of human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative pole of a single weakness.

LOWELL.

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The best possible impression that you can make by your dress is to make no separate impression at all; but so to harmonize its material and shape with your personality, that it becomes tributary in the general effect, and so exclusively tributary that people cannot tell after seeing you what kind of clothes you wear.