Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIdealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFour snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson