It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStyle is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson