Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

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.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

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

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

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.