Every act of personal discipline is contributing to a subconscious reservoir whence our nobler energies are supplied for ever.

And so, little things lead to great; and in an office wrangle or a social squabble there is need for developing those very qualities of judgment, courage, and patience which equip a man for the trials of the battlefield or the ruling of the state.
IV We have considered the individual in business and social life.

Let us now follow him into a political assembly.

We find the same conditions prevail.

Again, men fight bitterly but most frequently for nothing worth a fight; and again those rightly judging the situation must resolve not to be tempted into a wrangle even if their restraint be called by another name.