"Four snakes gliding up and down a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.”

“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”

“In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.”

“Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”

“I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.”

“You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”