No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Power is neither male nor female.

What is fruitful alone is true.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.