Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

God's power is infinite. Whatever he wills is executed. But neither man, nor any other animal, is happy. Therefore he does not will their happiness. Epicurus' …

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

If the whole of natural theology, as some people seem to maintain, resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined proposition, …

Je savais que le bien comme le mal est affaire de routine, que le temporaire se prolonge, que l'exterieur s'infiltre au dedans, et que le masque, a la longue, …

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.