Enter a room as if you felt yourself entitled to a welcome, but wished to take no undue advantage of it.
Do not press a favor where you see it will be unwelcome.
Treat all the guests you meet at your friend’s table, for the time being, as your equals.
A very trifling and yet important thing that every woman should know is that it is exceedingly inelegant in rising from a chair to raise herself by pressure on the arms. Unless she is old or infirm she should rise without assistance.
Do not rush into a friendship with everybody you meet. Friendships so quickly made are quickly broken.
In another man’s house do not take upon yourself to play the host—not even at the host’s request.
In making gifts let them be in proportion to your means. A rich man does not thank a poor man for making him a present which he knows the giver cannot afford.
Do not claim the acquaintance of a man of rank on the ground that you once met him at a house to which you had been invited.
Let it be said of you as it was said of Macaulay, that he remembered everything, “except an injury.”
In making calls, do your best to lighten the infliction to your hostess. Do not stay long; and do not enter upon a subject of conversation which may terrify her with the apprehension that you intend to remain until you have exhausted it.