"Every man supposes himself not to be..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.”

“Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?”

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”

“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”

“The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.”

“Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.”

“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”