“...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...”

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow, uttering his penetrating words: "Let me be. Why do you offend me?" --and in these penetrating words rang other words: "I am your brother." And the poor young man would bury his face in his hands, and many a time in his life he shuddered to see how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savege coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners, and God! even in a man the world regards as noble and honorable.”

“It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.”

“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”

“How much vanity must be concealed-not too effectively at that- in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?”

“Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora)Boring. (Cat)How so? (Nora)Have you ever been around such men? They’re mewling. Fussing over their hair, their cloths. They’re more woman than man. (Cat)”