"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory."

"There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else."

"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."