"Young man, or young woman, just commencing life! Be true to yourself. Act your own character. Live the life for which you were intended, and you will succeed and be honored as certainly as God intended you should. But if you strive to be another than yourself, or to fill a place for which you were never designed, you will fall as would fall the exotic before a northern blast, or melt like the iceberg in the tropics."

- Orson F. Whitney