"Cunning is strength withheld...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

“In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.”

“Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.”

“I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.”

“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”

“Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves”

“Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.”

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

“There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.”