There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
Ralph Waldo Emerson