"You must look into people as well as at them."
- Lord Chesterfield
"Human improvement is from within outward."
- James Froude
"Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
- Goethe
"O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true."
- Sir Richard Holland
"Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us."
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has."
- Alphonse Karr
"Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known."
- Owen Meredith
"In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not."
- Joaquin Miller
"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."