"Knowledge is the antidote to fear..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.”

“Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.”

“Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.”

“The knowledge of all things is possible”

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

“Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.”

“Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts”

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.”

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”