"All the elements, whose aid man calls..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

“A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.”

“More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.”

“The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.”

“Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.”

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”

“[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”

“Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger”

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.”