I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson