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.

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

The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

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.

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.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.