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

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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

Compromise,n. 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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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.