Electricity is responsible for having made the world of matter a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time.
Electricity is that invention before which getting coal from Santa wouldn’t have been that bad.
Etiquette is there for people with no breeding, just as fashion exists for women with no taste.
Etiquette is important — Bad table manners have broken up more households than infidelity.
Etiquette is, at the same time, a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
Expectation is best measured against real potentialities — you can't take more out of a bag than what's in it
Expectation is wise to keep realistic — You cannot get milk from a male buffalo, nor butter by churning water
Expectation is the secret of the persecution of the Jews, Christians and Mohammedans by one another.
15 concepts in this pillow book.