If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying."
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
"What I must do is all that concerns me,."
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."