When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

All men are born good.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.