Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonArt and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson