"The stupidity of men always invites the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”

“If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.”

“The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.”

“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.”

“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.”

“The work for giants...to serve well the guns!”

“What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”