Silver is the king's stamp; man God's stamp, and a woman is man's stamp; we are not current till we pass from one man to another.
I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be.
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!
I weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's inscription can make the metal better or heavier.
Wycherlt—PlainDealer. Act I. Sc. 1. (Altered by Bickerstaff .)
| seealso = (See also Burns, Carew, Gower, Massinger, Sterne, Webster)
| topic = Man
| page = 493
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
How passing wonder He, who made him such!
Young—Night Thoughts. Night I. L. 68.
Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself,
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 112.
MANNERS
He was the mildest manner'd man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto III. St. 41.
Now as to politeness ... I would venture
to call it benevolence in trifles.
Lord Chatham—Correspondence. I. 79.
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth
its way through the world. Like a great rough
diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way
. of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but
it will never be worn, nor shine, if it is not polished.
Chesterfield—Letters. July 1, 1748.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me, and no other can.
| author = Cowper
| work = Conversation. L. 193.
| note =
| topic = Manners
| page = 493
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it.
| author = Dickens
| work = Martin Chuzzlewit.
| place = Vol. II. Ch. XIV.
| topic = Manners
| page = 493
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
| author = Emerson
| work = The Conduct of Life. Behavior.
| topic = Manners
| page = 493
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims.
Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder
sein Bild zeigt.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one
shows his image.
Goethe—Die Wahlverwandtschaften. II. 5.
AusOttiliens Tagebuche.
The mildest manners with the bravest mind.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XXIV. L. 963
| note = Pope's trans.
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
Ah, ah Sir Thomas, Honores mutant Mores. Manners
| cog = (Lord Rutland). To Sir Thos. More.
Not so, in faith, but have a care lest we translate the proverb and say, 'Honours change Manners.'
Answer of Sir Thos. More to Manners.
Margaret More—Diary. October, 1524.
My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.
We call it only pretty Fanny's way.
Thomas Parnell—An Elegy to an Old Beauty.
Compare Leigh Hunt Trans, of Dulces
Amaryllidis Irce.
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners, living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
"What sort of a doctor is he?" "Well, I
don't know much about his ability; but he's got
a very good bedside manner."
Punch, March 15, 1884, accompanying a draw' ing by G. Du Maurier.
Qua? fuerant vitia mores sunt.
What once were vices, are now the manners
of the day.
Seneca—Epistoke Ad LuciLium,. XXXIX.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 46.
| seealso = (See also Beaumont under Deeds, Bacon under Life)
| topic = Manners
| page = 493
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Ecrivez les injures sur le sable,
Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre.
Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble.
</poem>
Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd.
