Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse?
—Plato.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
—Emerson.
Come, let us live the poetry we sing.
—Edwin Markham.
“Instead of wishing that all men were of our mind, we should account it one of the first blessings of life that there are men who do not agree with us. The currents of sea and air are not more necessary than the currents of thought.”
In looking back over our lives, we often see that what seemed at the time the worst hours and the most hopeless in their wretchedness were in reality the best of all! They developed powers within us that had heretofore slept; developed energies of which we had never dreamed.
—James Freeman Clarke.
Let your task be to render yourself worthy of love, and this even more for your own happiness than for that of another’s.