People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country.
If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Character in matters great and small consists in a man steadily pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
