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.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
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.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion.
