"I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.”

“If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.”

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

“The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.”

“When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.”

“The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.”

“Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.”