Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson