"Why need I volumes, if one word..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.”

“Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.”

“There is no one who does not exaggerate!”

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”

“No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.”

“There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.”

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”