Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonInvention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson