Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."