Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.