The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAfter you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonExplore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson