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.

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

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

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

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.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

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.