"Shall I tell you the secret of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.”

“Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.”

“It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement”

“Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.”

“Watch the stars, and from them learn.”

“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”

“It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.”

“I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.”

“Talk to people, not above them.”