Reproof is to be given not in anger but in a sweet and mild temper.

The rules descend even to manners at table and are a revelation of care in self-discipline.

We might imagine Oliver Cromwell drawing up such rules, but not Napoleon or Wellington.
The class to which Washington belonged prided itself on good birth and good breeding.

We picture him as austere, but, like Oliver Cromwell, whom in some respects he resembles, he was very human in his personal relations.

He liked a glass of wine.