"What is a weed? A plant whose..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The primary wisdom is intuition.”

“How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“White America is in the minority.”

“The further back I look, the further forward I can see.”

“One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.”

“It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.”

“A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.”

“It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .”