I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.