---

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

---

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

---

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

---

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

---

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

---

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

---

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

---

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

---

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

---

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

---