"But what is classification but the perceiving..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.”

“Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.”

“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

“So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.”

“The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.”

“The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.”

“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”

“My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.”

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”