"There is really no insurmountable barrier save..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.”

“To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

“I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.”

“Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.”

“You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”

“She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”