The civil workman will exercise increased power amongst his class, and gradually induce them to imitate him by his persistent steadiness, civility, and kindness.

Thus Benjamin Franklin, when a working-man, is said to have reformed the habits of an entire workshop.
One may be polite and gentle with very little money in his purse.
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

It is the cheapest of all commodities.

It is the humblest of the fine arts, yet it is so useful and so pleasure-giving, that it might almost be ranked amongst the humanities.
Every nation may learn something of others; and if there be one thing more than another that the English working-class might afford to copy with advantage from their Continental neighbours, it is their politeness.

The French and Germans, of even the humblest classes, are gracious in manner, complaisant, cordial, and well-bred.