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.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

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

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.