Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within. The contest between light and darkness, right and wrong, goes on; day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, our characters are being formed, and this is the all-important question which comes to us in accents ever growing fainter as we journey from the cradle to the grave, "Shall those characters be good or bad?"


Illinois College Graduating Oration (1881)

William Jennings Bryan Quotes

Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that ...

Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that ...

Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that ...

Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that ...