"If you wish to know someone, you need only observe that on which he bestows his care, and what sides of his own natur…"

"So mild, so merciful, so strong, so good, So patient, peaceful, loyal, loving, pure."

"Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries th…"

"No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suf…"

"Those about whom you inquire have moulded with their bones into dust. Nothing but their words remain. When the hour o…"

"A tender heart; a will inflexible."

"Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."

"We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or cry, or take m…"

"A very unclubable man."

"Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in atoning for error."