"Continence is a branch of temperance, which prevents the diseases, infamy, remorse, and punishment, to which those ar…"

"The intelligence is not free in the presence of a mortal fear lest its conclusions should trouble soft tranquillity o…"

"Intellectual courage may be defined as having a consciousness of the need to face and fairly address ideas, beliefs o…"

"Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business."

"Fortunately for you, we British judge man’s civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for…"

"Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.…"

"In one aspect civilization is the habit of civility; and civility is the refinement which townsmen, who made the word…"

"Disobedience without civility, discipline, discrimination, non-violence, is certain destruction. Disobedience combine…"

"Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is hel…"

"A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat: A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civil…"