Alfred, Lord Tennyson on character

‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden1910–2010

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus55–120

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 27