If at the end of the week's work and on receiving his wages he were to ask his employer for a larger sum pleading that though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it yet he expected it he would not only receive the larger sum but would doubtless be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received, it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

I can well conceive a man without hands feet head. But I cannot conceive man without thought, he would be a stone or a brute.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed, pay the price and it is yours.