If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.