Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.