Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThen, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson