Quote of the Day for 2016-03-29

"We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters."

— Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) Castle Rackrent, preface (1800)

Portrait of Humphrey Davy by Thomas Lawrence (c. 1821)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-30

"The measure of a man's real character, it has been said, is what he would do if he knew it would never be found out."

— Thomas Tapper (1864-1958) The Music Life and How to Succeed in It

Thomas Babington Macaulay (April 1856) to whom this quote of often mis-attributed.