Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

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.

People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.

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

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.