"Men in all ways are better than..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.”

“You've got to be taught, to hate and fear,You've got to be taught, from year to year,It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear,You've got to be carefully taught.”

“A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.”

“We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.”

“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”

“Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.”

“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”

“A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.”

“Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.”