Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson