"Evermore in the world is this marvelous..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My doom and my strength is to be solitary.”

“The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.”

“So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.”

“In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.”

“It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.”

“[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.”

“The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.”

“The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”