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

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

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.