"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wherever work is done, victory is attained.”

“Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.”

“There is properly no history, only biography.”

“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”

“A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”

“It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life.”

“As love increases, prudence diminishes.”