Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

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

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

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.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.