Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMore than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson