Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

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

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

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

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

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.