"To be great, you must be misunderstood..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Genius is its own end.”

“The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.”

“What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?”

“There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.”

“All great enterprises are self-supporting.”

“Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.”

“Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better”

“THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?”

“The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.”