The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.