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.

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

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

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.

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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.