This coachman-cabby of ours, gossiping with other coachmen while waiting for a fare, and sometimes, as is said, “flirting” at the gate with the neighbor’s maid, even learns various forms of what is called “amiability”. BTG XLVIII

“At the present time among them, good or bad mutual relationships are established exclusively only according to outer calculated manifestations, chiefly according to what they call ‘amiability’, that is, by empty words in which there is not a single atom of what is called ‘the result of an inner benevolent impulse’, such as arises in general in the presences of all beings in direct contact with ‘those similar to themselves’. BTG XLI