Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so - so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don't know how or on what it was spent.

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

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

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

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.

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.