Use softwords and hard arguments.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.