Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson