“From this day forward, whenever we do anything wrong, we will ascribe it to the judgement which lead us to the act; and we will endeavor to remove and extirpate that, with greater care than we would remove abscesses and tumors from the body. In like manner, we will ascribe what we do right to the same cause; and we will accuse neither servant, nor neighbor, nor wife, nor children, as the cause of any evil to us--persuaded that if we had not made certain judgements, we should not carry them to such consequences. The control of these judgements lies in us, and not in any outward things. Of these judgements we ourselves, and not things outward, are the masters.”

Discourses 1.11.35-37 [Higginson Trans.]