manners, n.Definitions

Manners is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Manners is the hardened form of morality that govern the world.

Manners is the lubrication without which frictions would develop.

Manners is good to the extent to which they are capable of bearing patiently with bad ones.

Manners is that which carries the world for the moment, character for all time.

Manners is the adornment of knowledge which smooths its way through the world.

Manners is the road to success in society, far more than is being meritorious.

Manners is of far more importance than laws. They are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.