"The hearing ear is always found close..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.”

“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”

“Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.”

“To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.”

“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”

“There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.”

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.”

“The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”