I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short.

Give my love to them both!" There are men in whose presence we feel as if we breathed a spiritual ozone, refreshing and invigorating, like inhaling mountain air, or enjoying a bath of sunshine.

The power of Sir Thomas More's gentle nature was so great that it subdued the bad at the same time that it inspired the good.

Lord Brooke said of his deceased friend, Sir Philip Sidney, that "his wit and understanding beat upon his heart, to make himself and others, not in word or opinion, but in life and action, good and great." The very sight of a great and good man is often an inspiration to the young, who cannot help admiring and loving the gentle, the brave, the truthful, the magnanimous! Chateaubriand saw Washington only once, but it inspired him for life.

After describing the interview, he says: "Washington sank into the tomb before any little celebrity had attached to my name.