Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. Ralph Waldo Emerson