“One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.”

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.

Whether you be a man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows.

You will be what you will to be.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

The lazy man does the hardest work.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

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

He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.