modesty [Theme] Page 18

He was essentially a good man, with sloping shoulders and a little moustache. Modest, conscientious servant. But it now had a hard time. Yes, perhaps, always more difficult of all. Modesty and honesty are rewarded only in the novels. In the life of their use, and then flung aside.

Modesty adorns a man, but a real man does not wear a decoration.

Admission of his own timidity in itself implies overcoming it.

To admit their faults, when we blame them, is humility, to open them to your friends - the simplicity, the credulity, to put them in front of all - pride.

False modesty as vile as vanity.

Who are not too full of himself, he is better than he thinks.

Modesty is a charming trait. But excessive modesty adorns.