Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.