Quote of the Day (Tocqueville, on Social Graces)

“Men who live in democracies are too mobile for a certain number of them to succeed in establishing a code of social graces and to be able to keep it in hand so that it is followed.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume Two, Part Three, Chapter 14, translated and edited by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop