Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

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

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

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

The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.