"The true philosopher and the true poet..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!”

“The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.”

“Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.”

“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”

“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.”

“The lie is a condition of life.”

“She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.”

“I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.”