Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

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.

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

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.