"Do what you know and perception is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”

“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”

“In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.”

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”

“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”

“It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.”

“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.”

“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.”

“Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.”