Illusions..........................

"We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our
sentiments.  The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which
he does not like to have disturbed."

"Great is the paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly
accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.  Society
does not love its unmaskers."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood.  All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is
another riddle."

"In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and
foundations.  There is none but a strict and faithful dealing
at home, and a severe barring out of all duplicity or
illusion there.  Whatever games are played with us, we must
play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with
the last honesty and truth."

"There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe.  All
is system and gradation."

-All quotes excerpted from Ralph Waldo Emerson's
essay, Illusions.