"The victories of character are instant, and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?”

“The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.”

“Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.”

“I know them, yea,And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;And this is all.”

“The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - theworst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”

“Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.”

“Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.”

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”