"Wherever the truth is injured, defend it...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no true orator who is not a hero.”

“Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.”

“Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.”

“The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.”

“Wisdom is only found in truth.[Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]”

“The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.”

“In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'”

“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”