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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.