All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.