To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

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.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.