We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPresently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson