"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.












An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
"A man is known by the books he reads.
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, ...
"Imitation cannot go above its model.
"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.