It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRailroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson