Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.