"The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man is grave alone.”

“Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.”

“Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.”

“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.”

“Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.”

“This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?”

“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.”

“It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.”

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”