Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!
Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.