Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.