Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.