"I will not hide my tastes or..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.”

“Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.”

“The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.”

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

“You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.”

“Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.”

“Individuality is founded in feeling”

“The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.”

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”