"The eye is the first circle; the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”

“Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.”

“Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!”

“Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.”

“He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.”

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”

“This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.”

“The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.”