"People who wash much have a high..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.”

“Live in the sunshine.”

“In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.”

“I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.”

“In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.”

“The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.”

“Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?”

“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”

“Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.”