"By degrees we may come to know..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;Shall sorrow put my books away?Thereby are two days lost.”

“Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.”

“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“No one knows enough to be a pessimist”

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”