To ascend one step — we are better served through our sympathy. Activity is contagious. Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. Napoleon said, “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your…

Humanity must ever reach out towards a New Eden. Succeeding generations smile at the crude attempts, and forthwith make their own blunders, but each attempt, however seemingly unsuccessful, must of necessity contain a germ of spiritual beauty which will bear fruit. Bronson Alcott — Fruitlands (1845) Did anyone ever tell…

“You may disarm the hands, but not the brains, of a people, and to know what should be defended is the first condition of successful defense. …

A guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain…

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the mere air of doing a thing, the intimated purpose, expresses character. If you act you show character; if you sit still, if you sleep, you show it. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Spiritual Laws (1841) Emerson’s concept of spirituality…

The most familiar sheet of water viewed from a new hilltop, yields a novel and unexpected pleasure. When we have traveled a few miles, we do not recognize the profiles even of the hills which overlook our native village…We do not commonly know, beyond a short distance, which way the…

The whole plan laid itself smoothly out before me, and I slept no more that night, but worked on it as busily as if mind and body had nothing to do with one another. Up early, and began to write it all over again. The fit was on strong, and…

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. …

The following is an excerpt from the book The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur You cannot put a fire out;/A thing that can ignite/Can go, itself, without a fan/Upon the slowest night.//You cannot fold a flood/And put it in a drawer, — /Because the winds would find it out,/And tell your cedar floor. …