In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHis heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
Ralph Waldo Emerson