The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good read more

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can
get with just a kind word.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can
get with just a kind word.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and
of apathy into movement without emotion.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and
of apathy into movement without emotion.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to read more

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. - Definitions, 1953.

We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. read more

We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Thus, while the tangible has advantages, It is the intangible that makes it useful.