"Knowledge is the only elegance...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.”

“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”

“We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.”

“I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.”

“Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly.”

“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.”