Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.