The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.