It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.