"I suppose you could never explain to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.”

“Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.”

“All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.”

“A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.”

“Finally, and most of all, words failed him.”

“Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.”

“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.”

“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”

“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”