What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWho leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson