The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFour snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIdealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson