The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson