Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.