When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

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

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

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.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

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

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.

Buy wisdom no matter the price.

Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

Nobody has ever had crowds like Trump has had.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness