There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

a good reader makes a good book

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

It's a luxury to be understood.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.