Where increase of life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once.

You can advance only by being larger than you present place. And, no man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.

Successful action is cumulative in its results.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.

To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.