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.

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

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

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.