People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.Henry David Thoreau