Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Since the nature of people is bad to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.

Money is the seed of money and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

False riches consisting of money houses and lands acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Capital is money capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning that creates the culture that acquires the culture and that responds to socialization.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.