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.

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

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.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.