Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

When there is no vision, people perish.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

The soul knows no persons.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.