Have you an educated heart?

Gelett Burgess on the small kindnesses that reveal true breeding. In this witty little essay he argues that real courtesy is not about rules but about a heart trained to notice and care for others. Charming and pointed, it distinguishes the merely polite from the genuinely thoughtful. A delightful, quotable meditation on manners as warmth rather than performance, from the humorist who gave us the word blurb.