"Open the doors of opportunity to talent..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.”

“When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.”

“Language is fossil Poetry.”

“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.”

“Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.”

“The day of fortune is like a harvest day,We must be busy when the corn is ripe.[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]”

“Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.”

“To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.”

“Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.”