Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.