A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

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

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.