In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Ralph Waldo EmersonColleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
Ralph Waldo Emerson