"The world of men show like a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."”

“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

“Morality is the object of government.”

“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.”

“A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”

“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”

“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”

“My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.”