Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Power comes from sincere service

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

You can't unscramble an egg.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.