Things refuse to be mismanaged for long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say, — 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.