"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.”

“If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.”

“Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.”

“To clothe the fiery thoughtIn simple words succeeds,For still the craft of genius isTo mask a king in weeds.”

“Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.”