Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

... 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

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Compromise.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.