There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thou… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.