The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson