"What forests of laurel we bring, and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”

“But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.”

“The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”

“Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”

“I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.”

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”

“Do what you fear and your fear will die.”