"The essence of greatness is the perception..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.”

“I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.”

“The lord is the peasant that was,The peasant is the lord that shall be.”

“The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.”

“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.”

“I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.”

“It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”

“He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.”

“To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.”