No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it – James Allen
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. – James Allen
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. – James Allen
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? – James Allen
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,