The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.