Samuel Butler Quotes about Character

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, William Morris (2014). “The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225