If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
Ralph Waldo Emerson