"The education of the will is the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”

“The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.”

“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”

“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”

“To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.”

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

“The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.”