"Life will show you masks that are..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”

“You cannot do a kindness too soon.”

“Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth”

“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”

“He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.”

“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.”

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

“those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.”