The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

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

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

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.