Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThese arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson