Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue based on strength of character.

Character... is a habit the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience hard work chastity and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Plot rules nor even poetry are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature of character of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.