“You conquer fate by thought.”

“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

“It is because the children of the empire were not suckled by wolves that they were conquered & displaced by the children of the northern forests who were.”

“The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”