Self-Control: Its Kingship and Majesty

The only responsibility that a man cannot evade in this life is the one he thinks of least,--his personal influence. Man's conscious influence, when he is on dress-parade, when he is posing to impress those around him,--is woefully small. But his unconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of his personality, the effect of his words and acts, the trifles he never considers,--is tremendous.

"A new volume of 'straight from the shoulder' talks....Contains more of his invigorating essays showing what a man may make for himself out of life." -Publishers Weekly

"Fresh and often witty, never dull, and always readable." -Aberdeen Daily Journal

"A bracing, healthful book." -Friend

"A stimulating little work, presenting a high ideal of life, and abounding in wise and beautiful thoughts, gracefully yet vigorously expressed." -Aberdeen Free Press

"A thoughtful book, which one cannot read without receiving much pleasure and fresh stimulus to fight that crooked thing, human nature." -Presbyterian

"Written in a strong and bracing spirit, and they place the emphasis with admirable insight on the value of character and its constituents." -Trust

"Fresh, well thought out, forcible in statement, and weighty in counsel." -Sunday School Chronicle

"The writer has a very happy style, fresh, clear, and epigrammatic, with apt and constant illustration." -Life of Faith

"Marked by sound common sense on such topics as 'The Crimes of the Tongue,' 'The Red Tape of Duty.'" -Brigadier

"A distinctly fresh and bracing little book." -Examiner

"The author has command of a beautiful literary style, which enables him to clothe his thoughts in the becoming garb of choice words." -Saint Andrew

"A strong, bracing, character-forming little book - the kind of book to scatter broadcast among young men." -Scotsman

"Books that arouse men to greater hope and spur them on to larger achievement, to self-conquest and the conquest of their particular little world are always welcome. Such an one is the volume of sixteen essays by William George Jordan, under the title 'Self-Control, Its Kingship and Majesty.' These essays were published first serially in the Saturday Evening Post. The author's attractiveness lies in his simple, strong Anglo-Saxon style, bright illustrations that at once fix the truth, and forceful epigrams that pull one out of old ruts of thought." -Auburn Seminary Record