Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them…

— Lord Chesterfield

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

— Samuel Johnson

“He was ever a strong man, which is almost the same, times, as to say a man with little time for kindness. For if…

— Mary Webb

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous

“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom, were not…

— Virginia Woolf

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took…

— Virginia Woolf

“He was a man whose calmness reflected his confidence that he meant whatever he did-- which is different... from confidence that whatever he did…

— Cheryl Mendelson

“Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored of bright new things,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Later that year he was invited to the Northampton Association of pastors. At the first meeting the elder Ryland suggested William Carey propose a…

— Sam Wellman

“A flavor...what do you think, old madman, what do you think? That if you find a lost flavor you will eradicate decades of misunderstanding…

— Muriel Barbery

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

— Greg Mortenson