Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
Ralph Waldo EmersonProverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson