It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
Holder.

You know the character to be your brother's?
Shak.

The character or that dominion.
Milton.

Know well each Ancient's proper character;
His fable, subject, scope in every page;
Religion, Country, genius of his Age.
Pope.

A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character.
Motley.

This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
Addison.

* "It would be well if character and reputation were used distinctively. In truth, character is what a person is; reputation is what he is supposed to be. Character is in himself, reputation is in the minds of others. Character is injured by temptations, and by wrongdoing; reputation by slanders, and libels. Character endures throughout defamation in every form, but perishes when there is a voluntary transgression; reputation may last through numerous transgressions, but be destroyed by a single, and even an unfounded, accusation or aspersion." Abbott.

These trees shall be my books.
And in their barks my thoughts I 'll character.
Shak.