"Let the realist not mind appearances. Let..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.”

“Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?”

“A moody child and wildly wisePursued the game with joyful eyes,Which chose, like meteors, their way,And rived the dark with private ray.”

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.”

“Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”

“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.”

“she shall scant show well that now shows best.”

“My husband says I look like a Q-tip.”

“The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.”