"Begin and proceed on a settled conviction..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do what you're afraid to do.”

“It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.”

“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”

“Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.”

“The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.”

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

“He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.”

“Talk to people, not above them.”

“One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.”