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.
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.
Our only safe rule in politics heretofore, was, always to believe that the worst would be done. Then we were not deceived.
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.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
The secret of poetry is never explained, – is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits.
