"Necessity does everything well. In our condition..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.”

“In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.”

“What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?”

“Hunger is the handmaid of genius”

“Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”

“Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.”

“Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'”

“To a valet no man is a hero.[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]”

“There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.”