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.

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

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so - so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don't know how or on what it was spent.