I could see peace instead of this.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

Make fair agreements and stick to them

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.