The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it!