Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIdealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReligion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson