"Our first mistake is the belief that..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

“It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.”

“You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.”

“The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.”

“A cat has absolute honesty.”

“But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”

“The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.”