We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson