Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even that those who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
Character Quotes
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes; Let them cant about decorum, Who have character to lose. A fig for those by law protected! Liberty’s a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Our characters are a result of our conduct.
It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters? Whose? Our own or others? Both – and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
The (ancient) Greeks believed that character was formed in part by fate and in part by parental training, and that character was exemplified not only by acts of bravery in battle but in the habits of daily conduct.
Public officers, whose character and conduct remain open to debate and free discussion in the press, find their remedies for false accusations in… libel laws… and not in proceedings to restrain the publication of newspapers.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
