In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson