It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
