Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.