"Throughout the ages there have always been..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.”

“He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.”

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

“We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.”

“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.”

“Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer”

“I hope to see London once ere I die.”

“The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.”

“The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .”