What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.