The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHappiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson