A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.