Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
I am sick – if I should die what would become of me? We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. I must improve my time better. I must prepare myself for the great profession I have purposed to undertake.
Our only safe rule in politics heretofore, was, always to believe that the worst would be done. Then we were not deceived.
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
The poets made all the words, and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius.
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
