Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.