In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

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 something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but can not steer their feet Clear of the grave.

A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.