Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there read more

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is read more

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.