Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThey have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson