But you must give it something, or you will not get anything.
When you learn to look upon every one you meet as holding a treasure, something which will enrich your life, which will enlarge and broaden your experience, and make you more of a man, you will not think the time in the drawing-room wasted.
The man who is determined to get on will look upon every experience as an educator, as a culture chisel, which will make his life a little more shapely and attractive.
Frankness of manner is one of the most delightful of traits in young or old.

Everybody admires the open-hearted, the people who have nothing to conceal, and who do not try to cover up their faults and weaknesses.
They are, as a rule, large-hearted and magnanimous.

They inspire love and confidence, and, by their very frankness and simplicity, invite the same qualities in others.
Secretiveness repels as much as frankness attracts.

There is something about the very inclination to conceal or cover up which arouses suspicion and distrust.

We cannot have the same confidence in people who possess this trait, no matter how good they may seem to be, as in frank, sunny natures.