When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

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

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.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

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