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.

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

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.

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