“Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”

“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.”

“Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.”

“His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;Our valors are our best gods.”

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

“The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it”