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

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

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. 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.

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

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

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.