The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The traditional British view is that character is what matters in a general. They like a solid, simple man, with no newfangled nonsense about him. He should be preternaturally silent. If by chance he thinks at all he should not let this leak out, otherwise confidence would be destroyed.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.