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

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

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

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.