Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson