"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

"Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

"Wisdom principle 42 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 73."

"Wisdom principle 59 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."