"The senses collect the surface facts of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”

“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”

“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”

“The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.”

“Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.”

“The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.”

“That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.”

“Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.”

“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”