As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson