Occupation: Writer Birth: November 28, 1864 Death: 1912
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloom….
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmon….
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot di….
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative ….
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 hig….
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it..
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 hi….
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 ….
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love..
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts..
Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are..
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long….
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it..
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself..
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which ….
Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world o….
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatl….
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life..
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes….
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure..