I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One da… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.