“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”

“A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.”

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. ”

“You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration. ”

“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”

“The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.”

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

“Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.”