A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMost of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
Ralph Waldo Emerson