A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEach truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson