CHAPTER IX .-- MANNER--ART.
"We must be gentle, now we are gentlemen."-- SHAKSPEARE.
"Manners are not idle, but the fruit Of noble nature and of loyal mind."-- TENNYSON.
"A beautiful behaviour is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues and pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts."-- EMERSON.
"Manners are often too much neglected; they are most important to men, no less than to women....

Life is too short to get over a bad manner; besides, manners are the shadows of virtues."-- THE REV.

SIDNEY SMITH.
Manner is one of the principal external graces of character.

It is the ornament of action, and often makes the commonest offices beautiful by the way in which it performs them.

It is a happy way of doing things, adorning even the smallest details of life, and contributing to render it, as a whole, agreeable and pleasant.
Manner is not so frivolous or unimportant as some may think it to be; for it tends greatly to facilitate the business of life, as well as to sweeten and soften social intercourse.