Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
Ralph Waldo Emerson