Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. – James Allen
The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. – James Allen
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. – James Allen
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke