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“To be spiritual awakened is also to be mentally and physically awakened. The sluggard and the self-indulgent can have no knowledge of Truth. He who, possessed of health and strength, wastes the calm, precious hours of the silent morning in drowsy indulgence is totally unfit to climb the heavenly heights.”

“The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

“All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It is rooted in ignorance, ignorance of the true nature and relation of things, and so long as we remain in that state of ignorance, we remain subject to evil.”

I found one Law, and the Law of Love; one Life, the Life of adjustment to that law; one Truth, the truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart.”

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts , and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires,- and circumstances are means by which the soul receives its own.”

“As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passed away and give place to other circumstances.”

“Man’s mind may be like a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild: but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”

“Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his “household”. When he begins to reflect upon his condition, and to search diligently for the law upon which his being is established, he then becomes the wise master, directing his thoughts to fruitful issues.”