In this world of change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goes
is lost.--_Madame Swetchine._
~Character.~--As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there
some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be
conquered, but in this life never destroyed.--_Coleridge._
Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid and
unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become
diseased as our bodies do.--_George Eliot._
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism
materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,
so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.--_Whipple._
Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to
see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying
in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes,
and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones.--_George Eliot._