Ralph Waldo Emerson

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King read more

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred
blessings on me.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.