Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDefect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPower is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson