“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”

“The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.”

“He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.”

“Character is that which can do without success.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”