I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.