Character Quote by Sinclair Lewis

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of…

— Albert Einstein

“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in those things…

— Marcus Aurelius

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided…

— Jane Austen

“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other people's eyes.…

— Ayn Rand

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the…

— marcus aurelius

“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution…

— Jane Austen