Teach thyself temperance, foresight, and wise memory of the past.

Thou thyself, in thine own body, art a community.

See, then, that thy communal life is clean, that thy will is in right operation, and thy minds divide thee not to disaster.
Thy very ego, is it not but thy president, the voice of all thy members, representative of all that thy race has made thee to be, effect of ten million causes, and cause of effects thou canst not see?
Let thy ego strengthen itself, deal justly, rule wisely, that thy state fall not behind in this world-progress and be lost out of time and out of mind, in a night without a dawn.

There have been such things: over against immortal gain there lies immortal loss.

Work, then, while it is day, for if thou work not, the night will make no tarrying.