One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHappy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson