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.

Words are the voice of the heart.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.