"Nature arms each man with some faculty..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let there be worse cotton and better men.”

“Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.”

“For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?”

“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”

“Always be a little unexpected.”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you”