No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

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

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

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

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.