Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Experience' The years teach much which the days never know. Experience' Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
Language is fossil poetry. A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson vol. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Uses of Great Men' Hitch your wagon to a star.