» Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
» Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
» Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
» Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
» The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
» Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
» He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
» If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
» What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
» Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.