Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBesides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson