Personality and character Quotes

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

I am large, I contain multitudes.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.

Beware the fury of a patient man!

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.