One idea lights a thousand candles. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals…” “Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed…” “Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to …” “When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we re…”