Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

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.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

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

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.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.