"The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.”

“There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.”

“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!”

“Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.”

“In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.”

“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”

“What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.”

“The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.”