Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. Emerson.

Character is a fact, and that is much in a world of pretence and concession. A. B. Alcott.

Character is a perfectly educated will. Novalis.

Character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence and without means. Emerson.

Character is a thing that will take care of 10 itself. J. G. Holland.

Character is centrality, the impossibility of being displaced or overset. Emerson.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. Emerson.

Character is impulse reined down into steady continuance. C. H. Parkhurst.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles. Hume.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, 15 and represents the individualisation of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. Whipple.