Strength, if not used to protect, is but weakness.

Many a person who will not lead the way will tramp on your heels if he walks behind you.

A tyrant has the least respect for one whom he can conquer.

Affection with some women amounts almost to disease.

The nation having the strongest war footing can easily find an excuse for going to war.

A young man is not fitted for life's battle until he has met and survived defeat.

The efforts of a boy to avoid labor often sum up more than the original task.

The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution.

A man who will take abuse from a superior will give it to an inferior.

We have confidence in an old man when holding a position, but lack confidence in him when he is applying for one.

While a woman is losing confidence in a man she is usually reposing it in another.

Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.

He who always plays for power will often stand on the neck of one person to reach his arms around the neck of another.

The farm fits a boy for the city but the city does not fit a boy for the farm.

If you keep too busy to look at time you will not know that it is passing.

Some people have an idea that virtue exists only where the blood is cold.