I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson