“We must be our own before we can be another's.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”