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

No more fatal error can be cherished than that any character can be complete without the religious element. The essential factors in character building are religion, morality, and knowledge.

The harder you throw down a football and a good character, the higher they rebound; but a thrown reputation is like an egg.

Character is perfectly educated will.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

As they, who for every slight infirmity take physic to repair their health, do rather impair it; so they, who for every trifle are eager to vindicate their character, do rather weaken it.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.

Character is built out of circumstances. -- From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

The character that needs law to mend it, is hardly worth the tinkering.

Character must stand behind and back up everything -- the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.

The character is like white paper; if once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to appear white as before.