Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows his image. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The first step to a good name is a good life; and the next is good behaviour. [ Proverb ]

Persons of fine manners make behaviour the first sign of force,--behaviour, and not performance, or talent, or, much less, wealth. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]