"The intelligent have a right over the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

“It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement”

“And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.”

“no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.”

“If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.”

“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”