The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
This is the moral of biography; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions, whose names may not last as long. What is he whom I never think of? Whilst in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners. There is a […]
We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity in this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
Wiser far than human seer, yellow-breeched philosopher! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet. Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
All high beauty has a moral element in it.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
