"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.
In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!
Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
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.