In small communities where near neighbors, for convenience’s sake, borrow back and forth, great care should be taken that the practice does not become a nuisance, as it surely does when it is indulged in too frequently, and when borrowed articles are not speedily returned and in good condition. There should be no stinted measures in returning.
Ostentation is snobbish, as is all too great profusion.
To affect not to remember a person is despicable, and reflects only on the pretender.
Some conceited or ill-bred people imagine they make themselves important and powerful by being rude and insulting.
One is judged, to a great extent, by the character of his associates.
One should be very careful how he asks for the loan of a book. If interest is shown in one, its owner will offer it for perusal if willing to lend it. When reading a borrowed book, one should take the best of care of it, and return it as soon as possible. No real lady or gentlemen will leave finger prints upon its pages, or turn down its leaves in place of a book-mark, or scribble in it with a pencil, or loan it to a third person without the knowledge and consent of the owner.
A lack of reverence in one in the house of God, implies low parentage, or a coarse nature that is not subject to refinement.
To whisper and laugh during any public entertainment proclaims one’s ill-breeding, and invades the rights of others.
One ought never to leave the house after the evening’s entertainment without bidding the hostess good-night, and acknowledging the pleasure the evening has afforded him.
The business man has no stock-in-trade that pays him better than a good address.