"My specialty is detached malevolence."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse."
- Cervantes
"Character is that which can do without success."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us."
- Horace Mann
"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
- Stendhal
"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has."
- Alphonse Kan
"If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself."
- D. L. Moody
"A wise and an understanding heart."
- Bible
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
- Phaedrus
"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got."
- Josh Billings