“A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.”
“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.”
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
“It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”