Personality

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself

Some people reach the age of sixty before others

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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

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

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences

Our ideals are our better selves

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author

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.