"I find the Englishman to be him..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”

“Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.”

“Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.”

“Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.”

“Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.”

“It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.”

“May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!”

“Those who stay where they are will endure.”

“A ruddy drop of manly bloodThe surging sea outweighs;The world uncertain comes and goes,The lover rooted stays.”