He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.