Never Say "au Revoir" Unless You Have

Excepting A Religious Ceremonial, There Is No Occasion Where Greater Dignity Of Manner Is Required Of Ladies And Gentlemen Both, Than In Occupying A Box At The Opera. For A Gentleman Especially No Other Etiquette Is So Exacting.

Manners Are Made Up Of Trivialities Of Deportment Which Can Be Easily Learned If One Does Not Happen To Know Them; Manner Is Personality - The Outward Manifestation Of One's Innate Character And Attitude Toward Life.... Etiquette Must, If It Is To Be Of More Than Trifling Use, Include Ethics As Well As Manners. Certainly What One Is, Is Of Far Greater Importance Than What One Appears To Be.

The Natural Impulses Of Every Thoroughbred Include His Sense Of Honor; His Love Of Fair Play And Courage; His Dislike Of Pretense And Of Cheapness.

The Attributes Of A Great Lady May Still Be Found In The Rule Of The Four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, And Serenity.

Alas! It Is True: "be Polite To Bores And So Shall You Have Bores Always Round About You."