Character

If you want to be loved, be lovable

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble