1) Show especial deference--not indifference--to your superiors in age,
office, and the like. Do this not once, but always. Watch for
opportunities.

2) Rise, when an older person who is standing begins to talk to you.

3) If you wish to become a musician, you seek help from the finest
musical instructor within reach. Just so in the greater art of living
effectively, seek help from those who have learned wisdom. As a rule,
your parents and your teachers are your best counsellors. They have
traveled the road before you, and have your highest interests at heart.
Listen to them. Don't make your life a wild experiment in blundering; it
doesn't pay.

4) Never regard age, even advanced age, as a joke. To do so blunts your
own sensibilities.




INVITATIONS

_That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives._

--Gibbons.