Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society. - Sydney Smith

[M]en who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors,
often moving in opposite directions,
yet punishing anyone who gets in between them