A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.