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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.