If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest inthe universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed,no wonder that so many fall. Character has to beestablished through a thousand stumbles.

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

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.