"He is a man of the best stamp.
His foresight and energy, my son says, are incomparable.

I have seen him giving his orders myself, and I know a man when I see him!" "And what particularly pleased you in him ?" asked Hadrian, who was much amused with the shrewd old woman's freedom.
"He never for a moment loses his temper in all the hurry, never speaks a word too much or too little; he can be stern when it is necessary, but he is kind to his inferiors.

What his merits are as an artist I am not capable of judging, but I am quite certain that he is a just and able man." "I know him myself," replied Caesar, "and you describe him rightly; but he seemed to me sterner than he has shown himself to you." "Being a man he must be able to be severe; but he is so only when it is necessary, and how kind he can be he shows himself every day.

A man grows to the mould of his own mind when he is a great deal alone; and this I have noticed, that a man who is repellant and sharp to those beneath him is not in himself anything really great; for it shows that he considers it necessary to guard against the danger of being looked upon as of no more consequence than the poorer folks he deals with.

Now, a man of real worth knows that it can be seen in his bearing, even when he treats one of us as an equal.