I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause.

In this little work we have endeavored to call your attention to something of far greater importance than a mere code of rules and general advice.

Most people consider life a battle - but it is not a battle, it is a game.

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.

THERE is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.

AS a man chooses his coat for its wearing qualities or for the moment's passing whim, so does he choose his destiny.

To the minds of most people, the term Personal Magnetism conveys the idea of a current radiating from the person of the magnetic individual, drawing to him all those within the radius of his magnetic force.

It is a strange and almost amusing fact that there should be at the same time, on the part of the general public, such a general acceptance of the existence of personal magnetism.

A successful man is always asked - What is the secret of your success? People never ask a man who is a failure, What is the secret of your failure?

When man can see through and understand what exists beneath the surface of his life, the expression of his deeper life will begin.