Core Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.

— David Linley

Civility is not simply about manners.

— Jim Leach

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

— Alexander McCall Smith

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

— Claudius Claudianus

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

— Edmund Wilson

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a…

— Lord Chesterfield

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

— George Edmund Street

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and…

— David Hume

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson