"I fear the popular notion of success..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.”

“Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.”

“Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.”

“One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.”

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

“One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.”

“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”

“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”

“Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.”