Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “Yet, Saxham, thou within thy gate
    Art of thyself so delicate,
    So full of native sweets that bless
    Thy roof with inward happiness,
    As neither from nor to thy store
    Winter takes aught, or spring adds more.”
    —Thomas Carew (1589–1639)

    “The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.”
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

    “To Time it never seems that he is brave
    To set himself against the peaks of snow
    To lay them level with the running wave,
    Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
    But only grave, contemplative and grave.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)