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

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

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

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

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.

One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it!

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.