“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.”

“Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.”

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

“That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”

“To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.”

“It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.”

“The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.”

“A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.”