The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote Biography
American minister who left the ministry to pursue a career in writing