Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.