"Better be a nettle in the side..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."”

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”

“A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay.... For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river.”

“The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.”

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

“People hide the truth because they're afraid.”

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”