"Everything is beautiful seen from the point..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.”

“Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.”

“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”

“For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.”

“The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.”

“One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.”

“At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.”

“I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.”

“It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.”