Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.