To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.