"Those who cannot tell what they desire..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

“You can take better care of your secret than another can.”

“We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.”

“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.”

“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”

“The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.”

“Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”

“Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.”

“If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”