When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.