[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.