Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonConservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson