"Accept your genius and say what you..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.”

“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”

“Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.”

“when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.”

“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”

“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”

“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.”

“When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.”