He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.