If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds, Gentle Words and useful Deeds.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.