Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.