Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.