“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Justice is the truth in action.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms (“formes”, Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.