Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty, frost, famine, rain, disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.Ralph Waldo Emerson
