Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.
I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.
I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.