"There is always safety in valor...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.”

“I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.”

“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”

“O friend, never strike sail to a fear!”

“Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.”

“You gain nothing by becoming cowards.”

“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”

“Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.”

“Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.”