"The great majority of men grow up..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.”

“When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.”

“Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?”

“What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.”

“Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.”

“. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.”

“We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.”

“Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.”

“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”