"Wise men are not wise at all..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”

“The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.”

“Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.”

“Never mistake motion for progress.”

“In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.”

“You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.”

“We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections”

“No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”