"Men are so charmed with valor that..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.”

“Artists must be sacrificed to their art.”

“The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.”

“Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.”

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”

“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”

“Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.”

“There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.”

“Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.”