“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit . . . a reputation, character.”
“Credit is a young man's capital.”
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”
“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.”
“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”
“Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.”