Ralph Waldo Emerson: I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I

I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formi — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source i — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant f — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "'T is — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast — Abraham Lincoln
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide hi — Samuel Butler
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la f — Blaise Pascal
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer — Marcus Aurelius
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the anc — Vladimir Lenin
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. — Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does no — Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now