A certain inarticulate Self-consciousness dwells dimly in us; which only our Works can render articulate and decisively discernible. Our Works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible Precept, 'Know thyself'; till it be translated into this partially possible one, 'Know what thou canst work at.' (Carlyle from Sartor Resartus (1833))