Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

It is within the power of every man to become great.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world