For thoughts are things, and their airy wings

Are swifter than carrier doves.

They follow the law of the universe,—

Each thing must create its kind;

And they speed o’er the track to bring you back

Whatever went out from your mind.”

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Carlyle.

We need a revival of the individual. The question is not, What are they doing?—but, What am I doing? Not, Why do you not do this, that, or the other?—but, Why am not I doing this, that, or the other?

Jenkin Lloyd Jones.