The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson 580
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters. 554
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. 538
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. 512
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. 608
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. 2.47K