You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEnthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Ralph Waldo EmersonGo where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson