"Thomas," said the grandfather, "do you permit a slave to be more of a gentleman than yourself ?" "Lincoln was the first great man I talked with freely in the United States," said Fred Douglass, "who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and me, of the difference in color." "Eat at your own table," says Confucius, "as you would eat at the table of the king." If parents were not careless about the manners of their children at home, they would seldom be shocked or embarrassed at their behavior abroad.
James Russell Lowell was as courteous to a beggar as to a lord, and was once observed holding a long conversation in Italian with an organ-grinder whom he was questioning about scenes in Italy with which they were each familiar.
In hastily turning the corner of a crooked street in London, a young lady ran with great force against a ragged beggar-boy and almost knocked him down.

Stopping as soon as she could, she turned around and said very kindly: "I beg your pardon, my little fellow; I am very sorry that I ran against you." The astonished boy looked at her a moment, and then, taking off about three quarters of a cap, made a low bow and said, while a broad, pleasant smile overspread his face: "You have my parding, miss, and welcome,--and welcome; and the next time you run ag'in' me, you can knock me clean down and I won't say a word." After the lady had passed on, he said to a companion: "I say, Jim, it's the first time I ever had anybody ask my parding, and it kind o' took me off my feet." "Respect the burden, madame, respect the burden," said Napoleon, as he courteously stepped aside at St.Helena to make way for a laborer bending under a heavy load, while his companion seemed inclined to keep the narrow path.
A Washington politician went to visit Daniel Webster at Marshfield, Mass., and, in taking a short cut to the house, came to a stream which he could not cross.

Calling to a rough-looking farmer near by, he offered a quarter to be carried to the other side.

The farmer took the politician on his broad shoulders and landed him safely, but would not take the quarter.

The old rustic presented himself at the house a few minutes later, and to the great surprise and chagrin of the visitor was introduced as Mr.Webster.
Garrison was as polite to the furious mob that tore his clothes from his back and dragged him through the streets as he could have been to a king.