“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”

“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”

“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”