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 EmersonExperience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPerhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson