“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“Great men exist that there may be greater men.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

“The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet, time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.”

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”