“Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.”

“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”

“Night is the ideal companion to confess one's thoughts.”

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”

“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD”

“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.”

“High ideals make a people strong. … decay comes when ideals wane.”

“Let them make their war.
Whence come night and day?”