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

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

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.

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

The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.

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