Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?
Character Quotes
Anyone else on this page has about a third as many entries as Shakespeare. Next come Pope, Milton, James Russell Lowell and Goethe. The sentence worth reading in context is Emerson’s, from The American Scholar (1837): character is higher than intellect, and a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903), is here for a remark about marriage and morality, which shows how loosely the page’s topic is applied.
Three entries are flagged. Two sayings credited to the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus, one about character deciding every man’s fortune and one about doing nothing at once both hastily and prudently, are disputed. A passage credited to Joseph Addison, about imperfection being what complains of the imperfect, is marked misattributed.
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
Between the tree and the bark it is better not to put your finger.
Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
Just men, by whom impartial laws were given;
And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
May I splinter away from myself
break into whole units
and
live in each with perfection!