Character

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

The more refined one is, the more unhappy

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs

The vices of some men are magnificent

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.