Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Ralph Waldo EmersonKnowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
Ralph Waldo EmersonCriticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson