Character is higher than intellect.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.