In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHuman character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
Ralph Waldo Emerson