"Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington
"From a set of maxims which Washington copied out in his own hand as a schoolboy. He wrote out a copy of the 110 rules when he was about 16. These very maxims had been in use in France for a century and a half, and in England for a century, before they were set as a task for the schoolboy Washington." - Charles Moore in his introduction to George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (1926).
