A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.