One of my favourite thinkers. He reminds me also of Merlin in this photo.

Some of the quotes he is known for:

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.