"But what help from these fineries or..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

“Men consort in camp and townBut the poet dwells alone.”

“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”

“The rain, it raineth every day.”

“Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.”

“I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.”

“The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.”

“Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”