Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.