If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
Ralph Waldo Emerson