Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

No strength within, no respect without.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

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.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.