We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.