All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson