We pass for what we are. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.