If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Genius is a long impatience.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

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.

Throughconflict we get to unity.