Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee, ... This was all stuff that was previously known.