In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

I found myself within a forest dark.

Follow your own star!

The secret of getting things done is to act!