The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
~ Hannah Arendt
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No well-run yacht basin is complete without at least two Estonians.
~ Ernest Hemmingway
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
~ Jonathan Swift
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ Rollo May
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The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good.
~ H. L. Mencken
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It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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