All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher
characters that they differ.--BOVEE.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends
are all good.--LAVATER.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has
in substance been said, is "victory organized."--BOVEE.

A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is
not inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages,
it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station;
but it is the result of one's own endeavors.--HAWES.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell
characters.--LAVATER.


CHARITY.--I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in
the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide
philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge
into egotism.--MRS. JAMESON.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature
whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven
by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and
is just as irrational as to die of thirst with the cup in our
hands.--FITZOSBORNE.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right