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.
Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
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.
