"Since everything in nature answers to a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.”

“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”

“We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.”

“Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.”

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”

“But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.”