"A man should learn to detect and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”

“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?”

“Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.”

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”

“Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.”

“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”

“Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.”