A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

A humble man is never rash, hasty, or perturbed,

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

He's a humble man with much to be humble about.

We ought to esteem him alone an agreeable and good-natured man, who, in his daily intercourse with others, behaves in such a manner as friends usually behave to each other. For as a person of that rustic character appears, wherever he comes, like a mere stranger: so, on the contrary, a polite man, wherever he goes, seems as easy as if he were amongst his intimate friends and acquaintance.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

The gentleman is dignified but not arrogant. The small man is arrogant but not digified

The man who is so painstakingly cautious about doing his own body no harm seldom does anything for anyone else.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

My father was a cool-tempered and unaffected man. Everyone who came in contact with him knew his straightforward way of acting, his scrupulous honesty; but few, very few, of his friends knew his noble and manly heart. Indifferent to praise and fame, as well as calumny, he was ever anxious to do good in silence; and it can be said of him, without fear of contradiction, that during his whole life he could never reproach himself with having been guilty of a bad or mean action.