"America is not civil, whilst Africa is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.”

“I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.”

“To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.”

“The race of the guardians must be kept pure.”

“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”

“I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.”

“In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.”

“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”

“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.”