Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

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

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

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.

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.