A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson