People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.