Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but though his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.