To Do Exactly As Your Neighbors Do

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.

Never Think, Because You Cannot Write A Letter Easily, That It Is Better Not To Write At All. The Most Awkward Note Imaginable Is Better Than None.

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.

Nothing Appeals To Children More Than Justice, And They Should Be Taught In The Nursery To "play Fair" In Games, To Respect Each Other's Property And Rights, To Give Credit To Others, And Not To Take Too Much Credit To Themselves.

Manners Are A Sensitive Awareness Of The Feelings Of Others. If You Have That Awareness, You Have Good Manners, No Matter What Fork You Use.