It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.