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• "A man's character is his fate."
• "A man's character is his guardian divinity."
• "Big results require big ambitions."
• "Bigotry is the sacred disease."
• "Change alone is unchanging."
• "Character is destiny."
• "Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."
• "Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."
• "Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
• "Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
• "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
• "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
• "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
• "Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
• "I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
• "If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
• "It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
• "Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
• "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."