All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

All things are known to the soul.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.