"An original sentence, a step forward, is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do what you're afraid to do.”

“There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.”

“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”

“No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.”

“An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.”

“What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.”

“It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.”

“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.”

“I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.”