"The great hope of society is individual character."

-- William Ellery Channing

"I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

"Open confession helps build character."

-- A.B. Zu Tavern

"Character is what you do when nobody is looking."

-- Henry Huffman

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part,makes men petty and vindictive."

-- Somerset Maugham

"Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway."

-- Mignon McLaughlin