How can we ever a harvest of thought who have not had a seed time of character?
Character Quotes
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character.
When one’s character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it. (Marquis of Halifax)
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing. (Marquis of Halifax)
One must keep one’s character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can’t, then assume one. From the code of moals I have been following and revising and revising for years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest- comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not […]
