Character

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him

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

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

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

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.

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

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.