 There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine...  Works - Page 391by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...thought entering the hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior? There is always a best way of doing everything, if...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Elizabeth Aldrich - 1991 - 254 pages
...frivolishness about him, not a bit, and he warn 't ever loud. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn There is always a best way of doing everything, if...ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life Part 1: The... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pages
...converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. — Jonathan Swift Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once...or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners make the forti ne of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Good... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1967 - 572 pages
...are a few good sayings about Behavior : — "There is always a best way of doing everything, if it he to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing...of love^ — now repeated and hardened into usage." Thus it is that Mr. Emerson speaks of Manners in his essay under the above title : — "The basis of... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...QUOTATIONS FROM EMERSON. " Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." " There is always a best way of doing everything, if...of love — now repeated and hardened into usage." " It is what is done and suffered in the house that has the profoundest interest for us. Is it not... | |
 | 1904 - 746 pages
...anything like grossness in the object. — Hazlitt. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a. stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened...life is washed and its details adorned. If they are on the surface, so are the dew drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. — Emerson. A... | |
 | 1912 - 804 pages
...Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love — now repeated or hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish,...details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew drops which give such a dress to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable ; men catch... | |
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