Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHappy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson