There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good s...ense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by on...e person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their manners, speech, dress, friendships,--the freshness and candor of their physiognomy--the picturesque looseness of their carr...iage--their deathless attachment to freedom--their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean--the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states--the fierceness of their roused resentment--their curiosity and welcome of novelty--their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy--their susceptibility to a slight--the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors--the fluency of their speech--their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul--their good temper and open-handedness--the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him--these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love a...nd Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mar...k of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[A] sullen-wise Man is as bad as a good-natured Fool. Knowledge, softened with Complacency and good Breeding, will make a Man equa...lly beloved and respected; but when joined with a severe, distant and unsociable Temper, it creates rather Fear than Love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father was a gentleman of many virtues,--but he had a strong spice of that in his temper which might, or might not, add to the ...number.--'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,--and of obstinacy in a bad one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »