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.

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.

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.

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

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.