How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTalents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Ralph Waldo Emerson