“There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.”

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good.

Character is power.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

My father’s a character.

Your trauma doesn’t build character, it builds a wall around you.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.