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

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.