“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power”

“And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department”

“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs”

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled”

“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”