"Yet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education."

"It's the bad that's in the best of us Leaves the saint so like the rest of us! It's the good in the darkest-curst of us Redeems and saves the worst of us! It's the muddle of hope and madness; It's the tangle of good and badness; It's the lunacy linked with sanity Makes up, and mocks, humanity!"

"High characters (cries one), and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be."

"The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual."

"His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune."

"A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood."

"Brama assai, poco spera e nulla chiede."

"Fame is what you have taken, Character's what you give; When to this truth you waken, Then you begin to live."

"The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal."

"Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control."

"And one man is as good as another—and a great dale betther, as the Irish philosopher said."

"None but himself can be his parallel."

"Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating."

"Just men, by whom impartial laws were given, And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven!"

"Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade."

"Quantum instar in ipso est."

"Uni odiisque viro telisque frequentibus instant. Ille velut rupes vastum quæ prodit in æquor, Obvia ventorum furiis, expostaque ponto, Vim cunctam atque minas perfert cœlique marisque, Ipsa immota manens."

"Accipe nunc Danaum insidias, et crimine ab uno Disce omnes."

"Il [le Chevalier de Belle-Isle] était capable de tout imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire."

"Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo."

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you."

"Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still."

"One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."

"But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."

"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."

"The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill."

"I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character."

"To rake into the whole course of a man's life is very hard."

"An accused man should have the benefit of the presumption of integrity which arises from the virtue of a lifetime."

"We would not suffer any raking into men's course of life, to pick up evidence that they cannot be prepared to answer."

"You have no right, for the purpose of justifying a libel, to inquire into a man's life and opinions."

"There is in many, if not in all men, a constant inward struggle between the principles of good and evil; and because a man has grossly fallen, and at the time of his fall added the guilt of hypocrisy to another sort of immorality, it is not necessary, therefore, to believe that his whole life has been false, or that all the good which he ever professed was insincere or unreal."

"In my opinion the best character is generally that which is the least talked about."

"Means of knowledge is the foundation of the general inference of character."

"In a doubtful case, a good character will have some weight with the Court, but in a clear conviction, it can be of no avail."

"There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God."

"Men and brethren, a simple trust in God is the most essential ingredient in moral sublimity of character."

"Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choiceof good or evil we have made through life."

"The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty."

"A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity."

"When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character."

"I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts."

"Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature."

"Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character."

"Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us."

"Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man."

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, 'and not on marble."

"Modern engineers, after having erected a viaduct, insist upon subjecting it to a severe strain by a formal trial trip, before allowing it to be opened for public traffic; and it would almost seem that God, in employing moral agents for the carrying out of His purposes, secures that they shall be tested by some dreadful ordeal, before He fully commits to them the work which He wishes them to perform."

"Man cannot, though he would, live chance's fool."