"The first in time and the first..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Activity is contagious.”

“The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.”

“Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.”

“A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”

“You can't just let nature run wild.”

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”

“First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.”

“I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.”