Ossian Everett Mills Born : February 16, 1856 Died : December 26, 1920 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Ossian Everett Mills This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it. Ossian Everett Mills good-man patient men So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial. Ossian Everett Mills selfish brother inspirational