‘Sow an act and you reap a habit.  Sow a habit and you reap a character.  Sow a character and you reap a destiny.’ – Charles Reade

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s. – Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

A man shows his character by what he laughs at. – German Proverb

‘Success makes failures out of too many people.’

‘The true measure of a man is the height of his ideals, the breadth of his sympathy, the depth of his convictions, and the length of his patience.’

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. – Thomas Babington Macaulay