Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

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