Nature is always applying her reagents to character, if you will take the pains to watch her.

Our studies of character, to change the image, are very much like the surveyor's triangulation of a geographical province.

We get a base-line in organization, always; then we get an angle by sighting some distant object to which the passions or aspirations of the subject of our observation are tending; then another;--and so we construct our first triangle.

Once fix a man's ideals, and for the most part the rest is easy.

A wants to die worth half a million.