Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
To bathe a cat takes brute force perseverance courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
To play safe I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash the triumph of magic over the brute.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.