The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.