"You need not fear to handle the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”

“How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.”

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.”

“Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.”

“The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”