Character

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do

The great hope of society is in individual 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