Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWith each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.
Ralph Waldo Emerson