Character

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer

You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

He who violates another's honor loses his own.

The gentleman, then, is the man who is master of himself, who respects himself, and makes others respect him.

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.