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Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are giv'n by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good; Who hath his life from rumours freed; Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend.

The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of a good character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency -- clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.

By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.

Give us a character on which we can thoroughly depend, which we know to be based on principle and on the fear of God, and it is wonderful how many brilliant and popular and splendid qualities we can safely and gladly dispense with.

Not education, but character, is man's greatest need and man's greatest safeguard.

We shall never wander from Christ while we make character the end and aim of all our intellectual discipline; and we shall never misconceive character while we hold fast to Christ, and keep him first in our motto and our hearts.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit -- a reputation, character.

Make but few explanations. The character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.