Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges