"It is hard to go beyond your..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.”

“A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.”

“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”

“High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.”

“My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.”

“There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.”

“That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.”

“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”

“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”