Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.