"There is no one who does not..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cunning is strength withheld.”

“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.”

“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”

“Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.”

“So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.”

“I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.”

“the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.”

“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

“If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”