Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.