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

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

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

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.