"Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.”

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]”

“Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.”

“Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.”

“Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.”

“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”

“The greatest genius is the most indebted person.”

“Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest”

“Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.”