Character teaches above our wills.

We are wiser than we know.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.