"Immitation is suicide...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.”

“The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.”

“Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.”

“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.”

“Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.”

“Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.”

“If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.”